Infosys building new IoT solutions, partners with General Electric

IT giant aims at solving problems related to asset efficiency for manufacturers and other industrial cos. Two of its pilot projects in the industrial Internet space has been approved.Anirban Sen | ET Bureau | October 01, 2015, 08:25 IST

BENGALURU: Infosys is building new solutions in the Internet of Things (IoT) space for its clients and has formed a partnership with long-time customer General Electric, at a time when the US-based industrial conglomerate is doubling down on industrial internet. Industrial Internet refers to the integration of appliances and machinery with sensors and software that are networked.

On Wednesday, India’s second largest software exporter said it would collaborate with GE and others to build solutions in the IoT space that would be designed to help solve problems related to asset efficiency for manufacturers and other industrial companies. Infosys also said two of its pilot projects in the industrial Internet space had been approved by the Industrial Internet Consortium, which was formed last year by Cisco, IBM, AT&T, GE and Intel as part of a drive to promote the adoption of industrial internet and create more intelligent machines.

"The Internet of Things is about dissolving the layers of complexity and the intermediaries that create distance between the point of manufacturing and the point of consumption, between understanding and preventing points of failure in the manufacturing process, in machines or in critical processes, and between what the customer wants and what is delivered," Infosys Chief Executive Vishal Sikka said in a statement. "The value comes from bringing intelligence directly to these end points, and in doing this we can completely reimagine the notion of industrial manufacturing, and every industry, and we look forward to doing much more in our work with GE in these areas."

GE, which is one of the largest customers of India’s $146 billion IT industry, is currently pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into building its capabilities in the area of industrial internet, hiring top data scientists and programmers and partnering with startups to leverage solutions that can potentially act as a platform for all its software bets.

Under the watch of Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt — he was in India last week to announce a Make in India initiative and to meet local tech startups – GE has doubled down on software and started building more intelligent systems, including selling nextgeneration software platforms for airlines and power firms.

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